MMCC & MCLS present a video featuring Seven Pioneer Women of Morgan County, GA.
Presented by MMCC & Morgan County Landmarks Society. This video traces the lives of seven women from Morgan County who shaped Georgia history and became trailblazers with careers spanning journalism, education, the arts, and science. Duration: 42 mins.
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Announces New Executive Director!
We are thrilled to announce the selection of a new Executive Director to lead the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center. After a nearly year-long process, the MMCC board and executive search committee has chosen Melissa Klein to serve as the organization’s new Executive Director!
Vintage Duck Decoy Collection Now on Display in the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s Collector’s Cabinet
The Vintage Duck Decoy Collection of Gene Massey, features working decoys primarily from New England, Maine, and Maryland. They are weighted for stabilization, some have glass eyes, and a few are signed by the maker.
Great Music, Friends, and Weather Made for an Outdoor Evening to Remember!
Balsam Range delighted and impressed as they performed to a sold out crowd at the Madison Municipal Airport.
It’s Our 20th Year and We’re Getting Ready for Another Great Antiques Show and Sale!
Experience the best in early American antiques and accessories at the 20th Annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale, May 20-22, at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s Hall on Foster Street. Along with the Antiques Show & Sale, the three-day event includes a Preview Party and free lectures by experts in Georgia treasures and historic architecture.
Music City Comes To Madison; a Nashville In the Round Singer-Songwriter Series: June 11TH, 2021
The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center proudly presents, Music City Comes to Madison, a Nashville In The Round Singer-Songwriter Series. The series will include 4 concerts throughout the year in the style of Nashville’s Writers In The Round events.
Help the Cultural Center Slide Into the Future!
Working together we can ensure that the Cultural Center’s historic building is preserved and protected for future generations of residents and visitors in Madison, Morgan County and surrounding areas. Your gift, whether large or small is greatly appreciated.
Award-Winning Bluegrass Music Coming to Madison Municipal Airport
One of the genre’s most award-winning artists in recent years, Balsam Range have garnered 13 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards on the heels of 8 critically acclaimed albums. Balsam Range has headlined major festivals from coast to coast and appeared multiple times at the Grand Ole Opry.
What is that lovely scent at the Cultural Center?
Walking up to the Cultural Center, you may notice a lovely fragrance. The scent is coming from two Edgeworthia chrysantha plants located on either side of the front steps.
The Vaseline Glass Collection of Betsy Briley Now on Display
Vaseline glass is also called “uranium glass,” and for good reason. Like all types of colored glass, minerals are added to the molten mixture during production to achieve the color. The type of mineral added to Vaseline glass is actually what makes it glow.
Museum Highlights: Arts & Crafts Furnishings in the Members Room
The tenth and final video in the Museum Highlights series provides an overview of the Arts & Crafts furnishings displayed in the member's room at the Cultural Center, where little Oliver Hardy attended 1st grade. Learn more about these furnishings and the Arts & Crafts movement in this month's Museum Highlights video.
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Acquires a Maxfield Parrish Lithograph Print entitled “Village Brook.”
The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center has recently acquired a Maxfield Parrish print entitled “Village Brook”. This original lithograph features a huge stately tree in the foreground with a quiet stream running through a village. A church can be seen in the background.
What’s Up at the Center? February 2021
What's Up at the Center? February 2021. From your Madison-Morgan Cultural Center.
Museum Highlights: Dave - Artist, Poet, Slave
The ninth video in the Museum Highlights series provides an informative and historical overview of the Graded School Property. Exactly 125 years ago, students walked into the Madison graded school, now home of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center.
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Celebrates the 125th Anniversary of its Historic Home
The 125th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating the Home of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center can be viewed in the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s second floor galleries beginning February 26th and running through June 2021.
Museum Highlights: Moulthrop Vase
The eighth video in the Museum Highlights series provides an informative and historical overview of the Moulthrop Vase. The beautiful Georgia Pine vase created by wood craftsman, Ed Moulthrop has been part of the Cultural Center Museum's collection since 1978.
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Partners with Morgan County Landmarks Society to Present Tales of School
31 Morgan County residents tell humorous, educational and pensive tales of schooldays here in the first half of the 20th Century.
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Receives Portrait of Early Madisonian Thomas P. Saffold
The Madison Morgan Cultural Center has recently received and mounted a portrait of Thomas Peter Saffold (1821-1881). Mr. Frank Saffold of St. Marys, Georgia, a 101 year old descendant of Saffold, donated the art on behalf of the family. The Saffold family was significant in the development of Morgan County in the 19th Century.